Currently, I have finished interviewing my high school students to learn about their demotivating and remotivating factors. I'm trying to use case-study method to analysis data. In my understanding, I think I should treat each of my students as a seperate case and do a cross-case analysis like Rober Yin said in his book. I'm wondering if my understanding of cros-analysis is correct. I plan to create a table to display each students' factors and to see if there's any pattern. At the present, I see that there is some connection between their English proficiency and their factors, so I decides to classify my students into groups according to their level of proficiency. My question is how report this findings. Should I report the similar factors of all groups first according to each category and then describe those unique to each group?
I believe that Yin is indeed the best source on cross-case analysis. The more recent editions of book contain a variety of detailed examples, so you might look up some of them to see what kinds of reporting formats they used.
In general, your plan of first describing what the groups had in common, followed by what was unique to different groups sounds like a useful structure.
Hello there, Tinh. I'm a QUAL researcher. Yes, I agree with what David Morgan suggests. You do a 'horizontal' analysis first - to find commonalities within the group. Then, you do a 'vertical' analysis - looking at each case / participant individually. This was what I did for my PhD, as suggested by my awesome SUPERvisor. All the best ✓
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